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Simple question, what are the top 5 most famous police departments in the nation? The departments could be famous or infamous as long as they are famous. My picks would be:
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Los Angeles Police Department should be listed. They were the ones that created the S.W.A.T team in 1969 to combat high level offenses and extremely deadly criminals. Their police department has to be one of the most famous and one of the best known and influential ones in the country. There are countries like India for example that took the concept of the S.W.A.T team and created their own specialized high offense divisions for their police departments to fight dangerous level criminals. That is pretty influential if I must say so myself.
Los Angeles Police Department should be listed. They were the ones that created the S.W.A.T team in 1969 to combat high level offenses and extremely deadly criminals. Their police department has to be one of the most famous and one of the best known and influential ones in the country. There are countries like India for example that took the concept of the S.W.A.T team and created their own specialized high offense divisions for their police departments to fight dangerous level criminals. That is pretty influential if I must say so myself.
Were those the same guys who liberated the Taj Hotel in Mumbai in 2008?
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Were those the same guys who liberated the Taj Hotel in Mumbai in 2008?
No idea, but probably. But the name of the department that S.W.A.T team inspired in India is A.T.S and they handled the 1993 Bombay Bombings, 1991 Shootout in Mumbai, & a number of other things. They recently in the last few years made a movie on it, and they gave the city of Los Angeles & Los Angeles Police Department's innovative idea to form the S.W.A.T team a special shout out. I learned about it in the movie and looked up on it a lot, and things started getting interesting. I looked up some crazy stuff like the most wanted men in the world and all that junk, learned a lot and I will tell you straight up the Los Angeles Police Department has no equals.
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The then Additional Commissioner of Mumbai Police Aftab Ahmed Khan, popularly known as A.A.Khan, is the founder of ATS He was inspired by Los Angeles Police Department's Special Weapons & Tactics (SWAT) to take control over modern-day terrorism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti_Te...t_Squad_(India)
You can watch the movie too, it'll give lots of explanations for all of it.
The way I think of it, a city with some innovation in crime fighting set a trend that a country of 1.1 Billion adopted and implemented throughout all of its major cities and has been successful at saving thousands of lives. In my opinion, that puts Los Angeles up high in this.
No idea, but probably. But the name of the department that S.W.A.T team inspired in India is A.T.S and they handled the 1993 Bombay Bombings, 1991 Shootout in Mumbai, & a number of other things. They recently in the last few years made a movie on it, and they gave the city of Los Angeles & Los Angeles Police Department's innovative idea to form the S.W.A.T team a special shout out. I learned about it in the movie and looked up on it a lot, and things started getting interesting. I looked up some crazy stuff like the most wanted men in the world and all that junk, learned a lot and I will tell you straight up the Los Angeles Police Department has no equals.
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You can watch the movie too, it'll give lots of explanations for all of it.
The way I think of it, a city with some innovation in crime fighting set a trend that a country of 1.1 Billion adopted and implemented throughout all of its major cities and has been successful at saving thousands of lives. In my opinion, that puts Los Angeles up high in this.
You make some good points about LAPD being influential to law enforcement in India, but I would still have to give the nod to NYPD on a global scale non comes close especially after the 9/11 attacks the NYPD became a household name.
Simple question, what are the top 5 most famous police departments in the nation? The departments could be famous or infamous as long as they are famous. My picks would be:
NYPD
LAPD
Miami Vice
NOPD
Chicago PD
I can't believe that a Texan posted this list. The most famous police agency, not only in the US, but in the world, is the Texas Rangers. The only possible competition is Scotland Yard (London Metropolitan Police).
I can't believe that a Texan posted this list. The most famous police agency not only in the US, but in the world, is the Texas Rangers. The only possible competition is Scotland Yard (London Metropolitan Police).
I was thinking more on a city police department level, if we were to talk about most famous state agencies than of course the Texas Rangers takes the cake.
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